Jake Sturmer
Jake Sturmer is the ABC's North Asia correspondent based in Tokyo. He reports from across the region including Korea and Taiwan. Prior to taking up this position he was a national reporter, covering environment, science and technology across all of the ABC's TV, online and radio platforms. Jake has won several journalism awards, including the Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the year in 2012. You can follow him on Twitter: @JakeSturmer
'The date may change, but the goal remains the same': Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021
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Australian athletes react positively to news that the Tokyo Olympics are postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak and will now take place in 2021.
Topics: sport, olympics-summer, health, infectious-diseases-other, respiratory-diseases, japan
Japan desperately tries to save Olympics amid fears of huge coronavirus outbreak
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With the Olympics less than five months away, Japan is scrambling to restore public confidence in its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. More than 900 people have tested positive, but one doctor says the real number of cases could be much higher.
Topics: disease-control, health, diseases-and-disorders, olympics-summer, sport, japan
Australians leave coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan, now en route to quarantine in Darwin
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About 180 Australians are flying to Darwin, where they will begin another 14 days of quarantine — but not everyone accepted the Government's offer to leave Japan.
Topics: tourism, travel-and-tourism, diseases-and-disorders, health, japan
70 more coronavirus cases confirmed on Diamond Princess cruise ship
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Nearly 10 per cent of the people on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship are now known to have coronavirus, with the total now sitting at 355.
Topics: travel-health-and-safety, diseases, disease-control, medical-sciences, government-and-politics, foreign-aid, infectious-diseases-other, diseases-and-disorders, health, respiratory-diseases, japan, australia, china
'It's spreading': Crew member on coronavirus cruise ship begs for rescue Explainer
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Passengers on the Diamond Princess are halfway through a 14-day quarantine, but as new cases of coronavirus keep emerging, people on board the ship are starting to worry the lockdown isn't working.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, travel-health-and-safety, health, diseases-and-disorders, japan
Australians among dozens more people infected on coronavirus cruise ship
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Four Australians are among 40 new coronavirus cases confirmed on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which is currently under quarantine in a Japanese port.
Topics: infectious-diseases-other, diseases-and-disorders, health, japan, asia
Coronavirus ship passengers bored, isolated and running out of undies — but many still love cruises
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It was not the cruise holiday they were hoping for, but many of the passengers quarantined for weeks on board the Diamond Princess in Japan say they have no regrets and would take to the seas again.
Topics: travel-health-and-safety, lifestyle-and-leisure, health, diseases-and-disorders, japan
'Frogmarched off to a room': Australian with coronavirus reveals moment she found out she was infected
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Passengers on the Diamond Princess are given thermometers and told to monitor their own health as they face two weeks confined to their cabins in port in Japan.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, respiratory-diseases, japan
'People are getting upset': Australians stuck on coronavirus cruise ship battle cramped conditions
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The Williamsons will be confined to their cramped cabin aboard the Diamond Princess in Japan for the next two weeks. They're finding inventive ways to keep entertained, but others are losing it amid a lack of fresh food and fresh air.
Topics: emergency-planning, disasters-and-accidents, infectious-diseases-other, diseases-and-disorders, travel-health-and-safety, japan, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, melbourne-3000, vic
Australian man receives suspended jail sentence over search for his children
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An Australian man detained for illegally entering an apartment building in Tokyo says he was trying to find out the location of his children, who were taken by their Japanese mother nine months ago.
Topics: family-and-children, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, family-law, international-law, divorce, japan, australia
The faceless killer who slaughtered an entire family and then vanished for two decades
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First he murdered the Miyazawa family. Then he spent half a day eating their food, browsing their internet search history, and napping on their couch. Why can't Japanese police find the killer?
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, family-and-children, police
As Hong Kong police advanced, some teens cried, some fled and some stood their ground
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A high school student who was inside the Polytechnic University during the siege last weekend says being barricaded inside was "scary", but an "unforgettable moment" for the young people of Hong Kong.
Topics: demonstration, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, hong-kong, china
Hong Kong's district council elections could send powerful message to China
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On Sunday the results of the election of these largely powerless officials will send a powerful message that could reshape the protest movement or draw the ire of an increasingly impatient China.
Topics: world-politics, politics-and-government, hong-kong
Hong Kong protesters fear lives in danger as police patience runs thin
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Under a huge neon sign saying peace, Hongkongers are devising how to help protesters holed up at a university escape authorities' clutches. Their answer is to divert police by creating more chaos — something this city has already had its fair share of.
Topics: demonstration, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, hong-kong, china
'Dark, frightening' times in Japan as Typhoon Hagibis death toll rises (photos)
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Helicopter crews pluck people from their flooded homes as rescue efforts reach full force in parts of Japan after a powerful typhoon unleashed heavy rainfall, leaving at least 30 people dead.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, floods, storm-disaster, japan
Typhoon Hagibis reaches greater Tokyo area, with winds exceeding 140kph
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Hundreds of thousands of households in Japan are advised to evacuate as a powerful typhoon makes landfall, bringing with it the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years, after an earthquake struck offshore Japan.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, storm-event, japan, asia
'It's an unimaginable amount': Japanese hoteliers fear Rugby World Cup fans will drink them dry
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With football fans set to descend on the Japanese prefecture of Oita for the Rugby World Cup, local hoteliers are following a stern warning from authorities to shore up their beer supplies, with one publican saying "fans drink about seven or eight times more than Japanese people".
Topics: travel-and-tourism, food-and-cooking, lifestyle-and-leisure, rugby-union-world-cup, japan
White gloves, neat suits and flawless manners: How to become a Tokyo cab driver
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Japan's taxi industry is recruiting foreigners. But first they have to master the rules of being the perfect driver: no sneakers, no sunglasses, and the graceful handling of boozy passengers.
Topics: olympics-summer, offbeat, business-economics-and-finance, road-transport, japan
Hardly anyone eats whale in Japan anymore. So why are they hunting them?
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Japanese ships have set sail for their first commercial whale hunt in 30 years. The problem? Japan's diners have lost their taste for whale meat. So why does the country insist on killing whales?
Topics: mammals---whales, whaling, world-politics, animal-welfare, japan
How do you catch something smaller than an atom that's travelled across galaxies?
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Scientists in Japan are hoping 11,000 huge 'lightbulbs' in a tank deep underground will help capture clues to the origins of life. Step inside Super Kamiokande.
Topics: astronomy-space, research-organisations, physics
Schoolgirl and man dead, children injured in Japan mass stabbing
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A man armed with two knives runs amok near Tokyo, stabbing and slashing schoolgirls and adults. Three people are dead, including the attacker.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, japan
The mystery of the kidnapped Japanese schoolgirl: After 40 years, is Megumi still alive?
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Megumi never made it home from school in 1977. Her family thought she'd been kidnapped for ransom. But 20 years after she vanished, a phone call from the government changed everything.
Topics: crime, world-politics, family, government-and-politics, japan, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
'Oh, the ghost guy': Why Kyoto police aren't buying Aussie's excuse for graffiti
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Japanese authorities say a 23-year-old Australian man arrested for defacing a Government sign in the ancient city of Kyoto defended the graffiti as art.
Topics: vandalism, law-crime-and-justice, police, travel-and-tourism, japan
When no experts would help their kids, these mums built a lab of their own
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What do you do when your children live in a nuclear fallout zone? These mums in Fukushima put on lab coats, taught themselves to be radiation experts, and opened up their own clinic.
Topics: nuclear-accident, disasters-and-accidents, nuclear-issues, parenting, child-health-and-behaviour, japan
Japan is running out of heirs, but this teenage princess is not allowed to rule
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As Japan welcomes a new emperor, the country is once again debating whether to allow women to sit on the Chrysanthemum Throne. If they don't, the country's royal family could disappear forever.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, human-interest, family, feminism, japan
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